Ornamental pressed glassware



(No Model.)

J. HALEY.

'ORNAMENTAL PRESSED GLASSWARB.

No. 485,032. Patented Oct. 25, 1892.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JONATHAN HALEY, OF Eos'ToEIA, OHIO.

ORNAMENTAL PRESSED GLASSWARE.

SPEOIEICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 485,032, dated October 25,1892.

Application filed November 17, 1891. Serial No. 412,189. (No model.)

T0 61/ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JONATHAN I-IALEY,a citizen of the United States, residing at Fostoria, in the county of Seneca and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ornamental Pressed Glassware, as hereinafter fully set forth in the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 represents a glass tile constructed according to my invention. Fig. 2 is a central sectional view of the same.

My invention relates to the ornamentation of pressed glassware, and especially to tiles formed of homogeneously-colored glass; and my invention consists of the improved colored-glass tile, which I shall hereinafter fully describe and claim.

In carrying out my invention I preferably employ articles of homogeneouslycolored glassware-such as tiles-into the under surface of which the design is pressed while the glass is in a plastic or soft condition. The depression made in the glass will have its lines varying in depth from slight indentations to very deep ones, thereby leaving the body of the glass between the indented portions and outside surface of varying thickness, whereby the deeper lines of the design gradually slope into the more shallow lines to form different thicknesses of the colored glass between the lines of the design and the front surface of the tile to impart a blended appearance of color when backed by a contrasting color. When the tile is placed upon a bed of plaster-of-paris, cement, or like material forming a plastic composition, the same enters the depressed portion of the tile, so as to fill all of the indented portions. The plastic composition should be of a color diiferent from the glass tile, and this, together with the variation in the depth of the depressed portion, gives to the tile an ornamental design accurately shaded by the increased thickness of the glass at given points, due to the variable depths of indention, and produces in a cheap and simple manner a tile which when in use is an imitation of the costly Minton tiles.

I do not confine myself to the use of any particular plastic composition which forms the bed for filling the indented portion of the glass; nor do I limit myself to any specific color of glass-or article of glassware, the results being the same in all cases. The article constructed, as described, with indented portions of varying depths gives to the design, as seen from the outside of the glass, a handsome shaded appearance that makes the article closely resemble the costly Minton tiles of commerce.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

An ornamental tile comprising a plate of homogeneously-colored glass having its exterior or front surface plain and having a design impressed within its rear surface with lines of varying depths in ditferent portions, whereby the deeper lines of the design gradually slope into the more shallow lines to form different thicknesses of the colored glass between the lines of the design and the front surface of the tile to impart a blended appearance of color when backed by a contrasting color, substantially as herein described.

JONATHAN HALEY.

Witnesses:

THoMAs THORNTON, REUBEN HA EY. 

